(182489). U.S. lawyer and journalist Stanley Matthews was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1881 to 1889. He aligned himself with the justices who liberally interpreted the Constitution in order to bring about an extension of federal powers, particularly in the areas of commerce and federal borrowing.

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